News coming to Facebook Messenger for children

The latest news on Facebook Messenger bring us that it extends the territory of Messenger Kids. The platform first appeared in the United States in 2017 and was only present in some countries. Now, Facebook announces the launch of this application in 70 new territories.
With the messaging application that can be used by children under 13, users will be able to send messages and make a video call with family and best friends with the control of their parents.
Facebook Messenger Kids today is a help tool for children in affected countries who cannot attend school due to the coronavirus pandemic.

How does Facebook Messenger Kids work?

The new launch of Facebook Messenger works under the control and supervision of parents. Those responsible for the children will be in charge of configuring and managing the children's account through Messenger Kids from their personal Facebook accounts.
To be able to use Facebook Messenger for children you must follow the following instructions:

• First step: If your country enters the list of territories in which the application is available, you will have the possibility to download it through the Google Play Store, App Store or Amazon Appstore from the child's device.
  
  
• Second step: Enter the login information with the account of the father, mother or guardian. In this way you will open the way to the authorization of the device to create the child's account.
  
  
• Step Three: You will have to follow the instructions given by Facebook Messenger Kids. The first steps are to add the name with which they can search for the minor as a user, configure a photo and choose a color to decorate the application.

As for the control that parents can perform on Facebook Messenger Kids over the children's profile, they are as follows:

• They will have the option to manage the contact flow of the child's account. The adult will have to approve or not each time a new friend request arrives or when the minor decides to send a request.
  
  
• Contacts that adults do not consider appropriate may be removed, blocked or reported.
  
  
• They will be able to download the child's profile information. For example, the files of the messages sent and received. The minor will not have the power to delete the conversations, so they will always be registered.
  
  
• Establish connection times with the rest mode, this will be managed when the user can connect to the messaging service.
  
  
• Delete images.
  
  
• Edit information about the minor. Name, sex and age.

More about the application

In the new version of Facebook Messenger Kids you can find 3 news:

• Now it will be the children who can send and accept friend requests.
  
  
• The profile of the little ones will be able to make group calls.
  
  
• The child's name and photo can be made visible to selected contacts on Facebook. Thus minors can send and receive requests from parents' friends.
  
  

Although all the alternatives must be approved by the profile of the adult who is the administrator of the Facebook Messenger Kids account, who will receive a notification every time the children take an action, the alternatives offer greater independence of decision for the children. small users.

Pros and Cons of Facebook Messenger Kids

The Facebook Messenger messaging platform for children is designed in an easy and intuitive way and promises great options for the little ones to be connected. We are going to review some advantages and disadvantages of the application.

Pros:

• The little ones will be able to make use of live video filters, video chats, GIFs and sending messages.
• By approving contacts from the adult profile, access to strangers or those who view inappropriate content will be limited.
• Within the Facebook Mesenger Kids app, there will be no advertising.

Cons:

• Messenger Kids has its risks, if the little ones are not supervised, they can share any type of material.
• Facebook will collect and save information from children's messages, raising questions about privacy policies.

The latest news on Facebook Messenger and the development of the special platform for children bring an important novelty to pay attention to. The tool will be very useful and gives minors an interesting power of independence so that they begin to train as users on the network. In turn, supervisors should not fail to pay attention as the virtual environment is still dangerous.